Scholars from the humanities and social sciences will share multidisciplinary ideas at the Australian Academy of the Humanities 46th Annual Symposium, being hosted at the University of Sydney this week.

Jeremiah Hamilton made white clients do his bidding. He bought insurance policies on ships he purposely destroyed. And in 1875, he died the richest black American, writes Professor Shane White in The Atlantic.

International migration has undergone important changes during the last decade, responding to demographic shifts, shrinking national workforces, the restructuring of economies and changing geo-politics.

Patricia Garcia, from the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), has been named as one of the 16 finalists from New South Wales for the 2016 Australian of the Year Awards.

Genderqueer, transgender and genderfluid: what are the differences and how can we challenge the instinct to automatically label? Jessica Kean and Benjamin Bolton from the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies write in The Conversation.

Eight years after her first performance at a campus band competition, The Jezabels' frontwoman Hayley Mary returned to the University of Sydney this week to deliver a guest lecture to students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Elections in Singapore are so heavily stacked in favour of the long-ruling People's Action Party that the country's newly re-elected government is more authoritarian than democratic, writes Associate Professor Lily Rahim.

The Australian Network on Disability's 'Stepping Intoâ€¦ Summer 2015/16' internship program is designed specifically for university students with a disability who wish to gain paid hands-on experience in their chosen field of study and to develop their networking and social skills in a professional environment.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is excited to announce that two more languages will be offered in the Diploma of Language Studies - Accelerated Mode. From 2016, the program will expand to include Chinese (Mandarin) and French alongside Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

The annual Open Day for future students to the University of Sydney will take place this Saturday 29 August from 9am-4pm. We chat to current student Jack Andrew-Kabilafkas about his experiences so far from studying in the Bachelor of International and Global Studies program to taking part in the FASS mentor program.

Economics has been a discipline of the University of Sydney for over a century. The creation of the School of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences nearly five years ago recognised that legacy: placing Economics as one of the core disciplines at the University and acknowledging the fundamental importance of Economics to the University.

Over the last decade, Tommy Murphy (BA 2004) has become one of the great success stories in Australian theatre. We catch up with the alumnus as his film adaptation of Holding The Man is set to open nationally in cinemas.

The impact of the humanities and social sciences in fostering progressive educational and social change has been boosted, with up to $400,000 made available by donors to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Sydney Writers' Festival Media Hub intern Nicolas Liney reviews the session, 'Jonathan Lethem: King of Sentences'. Lethem's visit to the Sydney Writers' Festival was supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

SWF Media Hub intern Nicolas Liney reviews the Sydney Writers' Festival panel, 'Shaping Australia: How a Century of War Changed Us', featuring Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney Professor Stephen Garton.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences recently held its annual Best and Brightest Showcase at Parliament House, in recognition of the most exceptional Honours Theses in Government and International Relations.

Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley and filmmaker Brendan Cowell treated University of Sydney students and staff to an exclusive sampler of their must-see film highlights at a special SFF On Campus Showcase event this month.

The Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris this January has dramatically refocused the global spotlight on the question of freedom of speech, what it really entails, and the polarising consequences its application can have.

The world of Greek and Roman literature is one that can seem outdated and irrelevant, tucked away in musty libraries and museums. This morning, in the resplendent Roslyn Packer Theatre, Daniel Mendelsohn and David Malouf confronted this perception in their Sydney Writers' Festival talk "Writers on Writers: Malouf and Mendelsohn on the Classics"

To mark the start of Sydney Writers' Festival, Judith Beveridge and her Master of Arts (Research) student Mark Macrossan discuss their favourite poets, what they're reading now, and what they've learned from each other.

The ability to synthesise large quantities of diffuse data into a clear, economical and effective argument - a key feature of an arts degree - will never go out of fashion, writes Associate Professor Richard Miles for the Australian Financial Review.

Graduates and friends of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences returned to their alma mater this week to reconnect and learn more about the exciting developments in their faculty at the annual Dean's Reception event.

The Gallipoli centenary provides a unique opportunity to reflect on the many wartime legacies - human, political, economic, military - that forged independent nations from former colonies and dominions.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is proud to announce a new research and scholarships fund in Armenian studies, made possible through the generous contribution of Mr Stepan Kerkyasharian AO and Mrs Hilda Kerkyasharian.

Professor Penny Russell from the Department of History has been jointly appointed to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Political scientists from the University of Sydney's Department of Government and International Relations have joined forces with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to help voters across New South Wales make informed polling decisions ahead of this month's state election.

Respect for independent statutory bodies is not a matter for party politics or personality differences, writes Professor Danielle Celermajer, in the wake of criticism of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

A team of University of Sydney archaeologists, led by Dr Damian Evans, have used groundbreaking laser imaging to map central Angkor and to help identify how unstable climate change damaged the city's water system and contributed to its demise. Their groundbreaking work is the subject of a new SBS documentary.

"Destined to be a landmark work in Australian historiography" and "an accomplished panorama of the continent's self-transformation into a nation" - statements utilised by the judging panel upon naming Honorary Professor Alan Atkinson's final volume of his history of Australia as the winner of the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature.